Deadly bus crash

By The Canadian Press Wed., Jan. 16, 2019 Ottawa police will provide an update today on the ongoing investigation into last week's double-decker bus crash that killed three people and injured 23 others. Chief Charles Bordeleau and Staff Sgt. Peter Jupp of the collision investigation unit will discuss the structure of the investigation, the agencies involved and the work of investigators. The bus, on an express route from downtown to the suburb of Kanata, wasn't scheduled to stop at Westboro station on Friday when it slammed into the roof of a shelter, cutting through the right side of its upper deck. The bus driver, initially arrested hours after the crash, has since been released unconditionally pending further investigation. It has been just five years since another Ottawa double-decker bus broke through a warning gate at a rail crossing and hit a moving Via passenger train, killing six people aboard the bus. Article Continued Below The Transportation Safety … [Read more...] about Ottawa police to provide update on investigation of deadly bus crash

By Chris Purdy The Canadian Press Tues., Dec. 18, 2018 A deadly bus crash that united a hockey-mad country in grief and spurred people to leave sticks on porches from coast to coast has been selected as Canada’s News Story of the Year. The Canadian Press annual survey of newsrooms across the country saw 53 out of 129 editors cast their votes for the Humboldt Broncos bus crash in rural Saskatchewan as the most compelling story of 2018. The legalization of recreational cannabis in October came a close second with 51 votes. “Although cannabis is landmark legislation, legalization arrived mostly with a shrug,” wrote Murray Wood, provincial news director with Saskatchewan radio stations CJME and CKOM. “No story affected Canadians in 2018 more than the Humboldt Broncos bus crash.” Article Continued Below The junior hockey team was on its way to a playoff game when its bus and a semitruck collided at a crossroads on April 6. Sixteen … [Read more...] about Deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash chosen by media as Story of the Year

Asia North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has offered his deep apologies to China after a bus crash in his isolated country killed 32 Chinese tourists, state media said on Thursday. 26 Apr 2018 11:10AM Bookmark BEIJING: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has offered his deep apologies to China after a bus crash in his isolated country killed 32 Chinese tourists, state media said on Thursday.China is North Korea's most important economic and diplomatic backer, despite Beijing's anger at Pyongyang's repeated nuclear and missile tests and support for strong United Nations sanctions against North Korea.The tourists and four North Koreans were killed when a bus crashed off a bridge in North Korea late on Sunday, leaving two Chinese nationals in critical condition.On Thursday, Chinese state television broadcast images of Kim seeing off the bodies as they were loaded onto a train for the journey home.The North Korean people were "overcome with sorrow," Kim told President Xi Jinping and … [Read more...] about North Korea offers deep apologies to China over deadly bus crash

Asia North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has offered his deep apologies to China after a bus crash in his isolated country killed 32 Chinese tourists, state media said on Thursday. 26 Apr 2018 10:10AM Bookmark BEIJING: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has offered his deep apologies to China after a bus crash in his isolated country killed 32 Chinese tourists, state media said on Thursday.In a message to President Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders, Kim said the North Korean people were "overcome with sorrow"."It is, indeed, very sad that the close Chinese friends, who had come here with the feelings of friendship with our people, met with an unexpected accident on our land," the message, carried by the official KCNA news agency, read."We make a deep apology to the Chinese comrades for the pain which cannot be alleviated with any word, consolation and compensation," it added."Our party and government will make every possible effort to ensure that hours of grief pass and the … [Read more...] about North Korea offers deep apology to China over deadly bus crash

By The Canadian Press Sun., April 8, 2018 CARROT RIVER, Sask.—A remote Saskatchewan intersection where a junior hockey team bus crashed on Friday was already a scene of tragedy for a family that lost six of its members in a collision two decades ago. Dylan Fiddler, who was just six at the time, lost his mother, aunt, uncle and three young cousins when the vehicle they were in collided with a semi on Highway 35 where it meets a secondary highway at a spot known as Armley Corner. “It hit home maybe more than others can imagine,” Fiddler said about the crash that killed 15 people who were on the Humboldt Broncos team bus when it collided with a truck hauling peat moss. Read more: ‘The tears just keep coming’: Details emerge about victims of Humboldt Broncos team bus crash Article Continued Below ‘Great group of kids:’ Stories shared of 15 killed in Humboldt Broncos bus crash Saskatchewan hockey league weighs … [Read more...] about Saskatchewan site of hockey team bus crash was scene of tragedy in 1997